Jeff Grabmeier and I spent part of the morning at Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area. Near the Sportsman Center, swallows are beginning to aggregate along the utility lines and fences. Most are barn and bank swallows, with smaller numbers of cliff and tree swallows. In the field behind the Sportsman Center we located about three bobolinks, and heard about three, and saw one, sedge wren. The wetlands along the east side of TH 108 north of the Sportsman's Center have good margins for shorebirds and yielded some good birds. Most dramatic was an adult bald eagle perched about 20 yards from the road. I confess to having become quite blase about seeing these birds, but seen up close, they are impressive beasts. (It helped that it refrained from eating any rotting carp while I admired it). Noteworthy birds: Bald Eagle - 1 adult, 3 subadult Common Moorhen - 1, wetland east of TH 108 and just south of CH 71 Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe - 1, wetland east of TH 108 and just north of CH 77 Tree Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Sedge Wren Bobolink Happy Birding, Paul Gardner Columbus, OH ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]